Yandex Source Code Online Leaked, Company Denies Hack

By Waqas
The threat actor has dumped a whopping 44.7 GB worth of Yandex data, including its source code repository, on a popular hacker forum.
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Hackaday Links: September 25, 2022

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Looks like there’s trouble out at L2, where the James Webb Space Telescope suffered a mechanical anomaly back in August. The issue, which was just announced this week, involves only …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 25, 2022

Anonymous hacked Russian Yandex taxi app causing a massive traffic jam

By Waqas
Anonymous has confirmed to Hackread.com that the attack on the Yandex Taxi app was carried out in cooperation with the IT Army of Ukraine.
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KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from “Meris,” the same new “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex this week and internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare earlier this summer. Continue reading KrebsOnSecurity Hit By Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”

Yandex hit by largest DDoS attack involving 200,000 hacked devices

By Waqas
Russian search engine giant Yandex has confirmed that its servers were targeted with cyber history’s largest DDoS attack last week.
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Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

KrebsOnSecurity recently had occasion to contact the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In the process of doing so, I encountered a small snag: The FSB’s website said in order to contact them securely, I needed to download and install an encryption and virtual private networking (VPN) appliance that is flagged by at least 20 antivirus products as malware.

The reason I contacted the FSB — one of the successor agencies to the Russian KGB — ironically enough had to do with security concerns raised about the FSB’s own preferred method of being contacted. Continue reading Adventures in Contacting the Russian FSB

Internal Leak of 4,887 Users: Yandex Employee Fate Unknown

Russian web titan Yandex NV suffered an insider breach: An employee was selling sensitive user data to anyone who would pay.
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Infostealer Adrozek malware hits Firefox, Chrome, Yandex, Edge browser

By Sudais Asif
Adrozek malware was identified by Microsoft and since May 2020 over 30,000 users have been infected. Find out how.
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